EP1481916B1 - Vorrichtung zum Aufbewahren eines Probeproduktes - Google Patents

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EP1481916B1
EP1481916B1 EP04291116A EP04291116A EP1481916B1 EP 1481916 B1 EP1481916 B1 EP 1481916B1 EP 04291116 A EP04291116 A EP 04291116A EP 04291116 A EP04291116 A EP 04291116A EP 1481916 B1 EP1481916 B1 EP 1481916B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D77/00—Packages formed by enclosing articles or materials in preformed containers, e.g. boxes, cartons, sacks or bags
    • B65D77/22—Details
    • B65D77/24—Inserts or accessories added or incorporated during filling of containers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D75/00—Packages comprising articles or materials partially or wholly enclosed in strips, sheets, blanks, tubes, or webs of flexible sheet material, e.g. in folded wrappers
    • B65D75/38—Articles or materials enclosed in two or more wrappers disposed one inside the other

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  • the present invention relates to a device for packaging a product in the form of a sample, and in particular a cosmetic product.
  • the term "cosmetic product” means a product as defined in Directive 93/35 / EEC of 14 June 1993 amending Directive 76/768 / EEC.
  • Cosmetic products such as skincare creams for example are often part of a product line formed by several particular creams, intended for example for different applications.
  • the same product range includes a day cream, a night cream, a cream for the eye area, etc.
  • such a commercial operation must not generate an excessive additional cost.
  • the document FR 2447328 describes a device for packaging a product in the form of a sample in accordance with the preamble of claim 1.
  • the product distributed in sample form can not be distributed without a certain amount of information relating to the product being indicated.
  • certain legal notices must appear in a mandatory way, in particular the list of ingredients of the product.
  • a product sample is by definition a relatively low product dose, which is therefore packaged in a container of reduced size on which it is difficult to enter all the desired information. It is therefore necessary to register them on a separate element, which complicates the handling of such a sample, especially when it must be associated on the packaging lines with the product marketed.
  • sample-form packaging device capable of being associated with an article, in particular an article comprising a first cosmetic product, the device comprising the features of claim 1.
  • the sheet having an indication of the product housing for the bag that contains the dose of sample product, thus obtaining a sample of space-saving product which nevertheless includes all the information required to dispense this sample.
  • the sheet and the bag being two disjoint elements, they can be made separately from each other conventionally and inexpensively.
  • the sample can also be easily manipulated since there is only one element to handle.
  • the pouch surrounded by a sheet is also easier to handle than a single bag.
  • the shape of the housing can be substantially identical to the shape of the bag so that the bag is perfectly maintained inside the sheet.
  • the sheet protects the bag from the outside.
  • the bag is held in the housing by clamping.
  • the bag may in particular comprise at least two opposite edges arranged in tight contact with two portions of the sheet.
  • a housing for the bag which does not require any additional means for holding the bag inside the sheet. The device is therefore easily achievable, and therefore achievable at low cost.
  • the sheet forming the housing for the bag may be folded to form at least one closed housing on three sides. It is thus easy to introduce the bag in the housing, after folding of the sheet, by the open side without the bag is likely to leave the housing as it abuts against the closed sides of the housing.
  • the sheet with the product information may be paper.
  • the bag may be substantially flat, and in particular made by two sheets heat sealed together.
  • the sheets may be made of thermoplastic material, or a metallo-plastic complex, in particular an alumino-plastic complex. This is for example a complex of aluminum, polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate.
  • the two sheets may be made of identical or different material, one of the sheets being of thermoplastic material and the other of an alumino-plastic complex.
  • the invention relates to a package for packaging a product, in particular a cosmetic product, comprising a container, especially in the form of a pot, a tube or a bottle, the container containing a first cosmetic product and being housed in a package, in particular in the form of a case or box, the assembly comprising a packaging device in the form of a sample as just described above.
  • the sample form of the packaging device can be housed in the case or box, for example on the container.
  • the packaging device 10 in the form of a sample shown in FIG. 1 comprises, on the one hand, a sheet 20 and, on the other hand, a bag 30 containing a product P 2 .
  • the bag 30 shown in Figures 2 and 3 is substantially flat and consists of two sheets 35 and 36 of rectangular shape, each of the sheets being formed of an alumino-plastic complex, for example an aluminum complex, of polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate.
  • the bag 30 has, for example, a capacity of about 1 ml.
  • the product P 2 intended to form a sample dose, is contained inside the sachet thus formed.
  • three edges 31, 32 and 33 of the two sheets 35 and 36 are heat-sealed and the volume thus formed is filled with a dose of product P 2 .
  • the last side 34 of the bag is then heat sealed to seal it tightly.
  • the last closed side 34 may be, as in the example shown, one of the widths of the bag, or one of the lengths of the bag.
  • the outer face of one or both sheets may or may not be printed beforehand with an indication relating to the product P 2 .
  • the sheet 20 shown in FIG. 4 is, for example, a sheet of paper on which information A relating to the product P 2 is printed, in particular indications relating to the identification of the product, to its brand or trade name, to a marketing argument. , the list of ingredients, but also the legal information such as the capacity, address and code of the packer, etc.
  • the printing is made by any known technique, including screen printing, typography, flexography, or by offset.
  • the sheet 20 may comprise indications A on only one of its faces or on both sides.
  • the sheet 20 is substantially rectangular with a width equal to about 16 cm and a length L of about 30 cm.
  • the sheet is folded along a plurality of fold lines so as to obtain a relatively flat compact assembly of reduced size formed by a superposition of several layers.
  • At least one rectangular housing 40 is formed between two layers of sheet, the housing being closed on three sides 41, 42 and 43.
  • the bag 30 is placed on the sheet 20, as seen in FIG. 4.
  • the sheet 20 is then folded in accordion in five fold lines 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 parallel to one another and at edges a and b of the sheet forming its width 1, as illustrated in FIG. 5.
  • the sheet thus folded is folded along four fold lines 26, 27 , 28 and 29, parallel to each other and to the edges c and d of the sheet forming its length L before folding, each line separating five faces I, II, III, IV and V.
  • the faces are folded on the IV face in which the bag is housed.
  • the last two faces II and V which come into contact with each other can be glued together by one or more points of glue to maintain a relatively flat set, while allowing a user to take off to fully unfold leaf.
  • the assembly thus obtained, illustrated in FIG. 1, is of rectangle shape, of width approximately equal to 3.3 cm and of length approximately equal to 5 cm.
  • the bag is then contained in a housing 40 in the form of a pocket closed on three sides 41, 42 and 43, the dimensions of the housing 40 corresponding substantially to the Thus, two of the sides 41 and 43 defining the housing are in tight contact with the edges 31 and 32 of the bag so as to wedge it inside the sheet.
  • the manner of folding the sheet just described is only one example of folding and that the sheet can be folded differently.
  • the sheet must be folded so as to define a housing for receiving a bag.
  • the bag 30 in a closed housing 40 on only two sides 41 and 43, the bag being held by clamping these two sides.
  • the housing may be wider and longer than the bag, and closed on three sides, or even on four sides in the case where only the bag is placed on the sheet before folding.
  • the packaging device 10 thus obtained may be associated with a packaging assembly 100 constituted by an article 110, for example a pot containing a first product P 1 .
  • the pot 110 is housed in a package 120, for example a cardboard box.
  • the bag 30 housed in the sheet 20 can be introduced into the box 120, on a packaging line, manually or automatically. It can for example be placed on the pot, as shown in Figure 7 or next to the pot.
  • the product P 1 may be an anti-wrinkle care cream for the face
  • the product P 2 may be an anti-wrinkle care cream for the eye area.
  • the indications A written on the sheet 20 not to concern the product P 2 contained in the bag, but the product P 1 contained in the pot 110.
  • the sheet 20 may further include indications relating to other products in the range of products to which belongs the product P 1 contained in the pot.
  • the packaging device 10 can also be used to contain any other cosmetic product, for example a hair care cream and to be associated with a bottle containing a coloring product.
  • packaging device 10 in sample form can be dispensed alone, that is to say without being associated with a packaging assembly 100 containing an article.

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Claims (9)

  1. Verpackungsvorrichtung (10) in Form einer Probe, die einem Artikel (110) zugeordnet werden kann, insbesondere einem Artikel, der ein erstes kosmetisches Produkt (P1) enthält, wobei die Vorrichtung aufweist:
    - ein Tütchen (30), das ein zweites Produkt (P2), insbesondere ein kosmetisches Produkt enthält, das gleich dem ersten oder davon verschieden ist,
    - eine Folie (20), die so gefaltet ist, dass sie eine Aufnahme (40) begrenzt, in der das Tütchen angeordnet ist, wobei die Folie eine Anzeige (A) bezüglich des ersten oder des zweiten Produkts aufweist,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Aufnahme von Seiten begrenzt wird, wobei mindestens zwei der Seiten in Anpresskontakt mit den Rändern des Tütchens stehen, um es im Inneren der Folie einzuklemmen.
  2. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Form der Aufnahme (40) im Wesentlichen gleich der Form des Tütchens ist.
  3. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Tütchen (30) mindestens zwei gegenüberliegende Ränder (31) und (32) aufweist, die mit zwei Abschnitten (41) und (43) der Folie in Anpresskontakt stehen.
  4. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Tütchen (30) im Wesentlichen flach ist.
  5. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Tütchen aus zwei aneinander wärmegeschweißten Folien (35) und (36) hergstellt wird, insbesondere Folien aus einem thermoplastischen Material und/oder einem metalloplastischen Komplex.
  6. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Folie (20) so gefaltet ist, dass sie mindestens eine Aufnahme (40) bildet, die auf drei Seiten (41), (42) und (43) geschlossen ist.
  7. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Folie (20) aus Papier ist.
  8. Verpackungseinheit (100) eines kosmetischen Produkts mit einem Behälter (110), insbesondere in Form eines Topfes, einer Tube oder eines Flakons, wobei der Behälter ein erstes Produkt (P1), insbesondere ein kosmetisches Produkt, enthält und in einer Verpackung (120) insbesondere in Form eines Etuis oder einer Schachtel angeordnet ist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie eine Verpackungsvorrichtung (10) in Form einer Probe nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche aufweist.
  9. Einheit nach dem vorhergehenden Anspruch, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Verpackungsvorrichtung (10) in Form einer Probe in dem Etui oder der Schachtel (120) angeordnet ist.
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FR2447328A1 (fr) * 1979-01-26 1980-08-22 Oreal Conditionnement d'un sachet de produit avec au moins un autre article
DE3902911A1 (de) * 1989-02-01 1990-08-02 Schaefer Etiketten Beuteletikett und dessen verwendung sowie verfahren zum befuellen von beuteletiketten und zum konfektionieren von artikeln mit zubehoerteilen

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